The following quotes from letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mrs. Bayard (Margaret) Turnbull are extracted from The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1963).
“I think we are all a little sick but the logic of history won’t permit us to go backward.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald to Margaret Turnbull, September 10, 1932
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“I don’t believe in the double standard – I believe it’s disappearing anyhow – I only meant that it was possible for a man to be far from a saint and yet be wildly jealous of his wife, as I am.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald to Margaret Turnbull, September 21, 1932
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“To me the conditions of an artistically creative life are so arduous that I can only compare to them the duties of a soldier in war-time.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald to Margaret Turnbull, Spring 1933
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“… For me the test of human values is conformity to the strictest and most unflinching rationality.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald to Margaret Turnbull, Spring 1933
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“I hear it is beautiful here, but without people all places are the same to me.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald to Margaret Turnbull, June 1935
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“Common sense tells me that there are rules but, like all modern men, the shade of Rousseau haunts me.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald to Margaret Turnbull, Fall 1935
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